The charity initially funded a range of projects, however in 1964 Tenovus embarked on a project which was to influence their work over the next 40 years.

Tenovus has funded world class cancer research for over 40 years.

Tenovus have funded research to help people in affected by cancer in Wales.

Since then, Tenovus have concentrated their efforts on cancer and Tenovus scientists have been recognised for their pioneering work.

Tamoxifen, a drug that is now used worldwide to treat breast cancer, was developed on behalf of ICI by Tenovus scientists.

Another drug with which Tenovus scientists were involved in is Zoldex, now also used worldwide.

Tenovus have increased the services provided on the unit ; these now include Counselling, Welfare Rights and on-board Health Checks.

Tenovus ' Cancer Support Managers, who are qualified social workers, have helped over 500 new clients through advocacy and family support work.

Tenovus have developed a proactive telephone chemotherapy callback service where a Tenovus Cancer Nurse Specialist contacts cancer patients throughout their treatment to provide advice and support.

Tenovus have a Freephone Cancer Support Line ( 0808 808 1010 ).

Tenovus have a number of events throughout the year ranging from concerts, runs, abseils, dinners etc.

Tenovus is a British cancer charity committed to the control of cancer through quality research, prevention / education, counselling and patient care.

The Tenovus Mobile Cancer Support Unit-" the bus " was launched at the Celtic Manor on February 2009 and brings cancer care to the heart of the patient's community.

Edwards, the founder Chairman of the group of ten, cut the first sod on the site of the Tenovus Institute for Cancer Research in Cardiff.

Tenovus spends around £ 1M on research each year both on laboratory research to help develop new treatments for cancer, and research in the community to help local people and their families.

Since then Tenovus Scotland has raised over £ 10. 5 million for medical research.

Tenovus has built a system of cancer support services, including a Freephone Cancer Support Line-0808 808 1010.

In 2009, Tenovus developed further innovations to support cancer patients and their families including the Mobile Cancer Support Unit.

Working with Velindre NHS Trust, Tenovus has been delivering chemotherapy and other cancer treatments in Cwmbran and Nantgarw.

Tenovus Cancer Support Team is unique in the way it provides help, guidance and support through its multi-disciplinary service ; allowing patients and their families to access a number of services directly through the charity.

There a more details of Tenovus ' research on their website.

Image: TenoBus. jpg | Tenovus Mobile Cancer Support Unit

3 Peaks Challenge-Launched in 2003, the Tenovus 3 Peaks Challenge is now a key event in the fundraising calendar.

Tenovus held their first Volunteer Awards at Cardiff Castle in July 2011.

One of the authors ' main arguments is that most prominent scientists who have been voicing opposition to the near-universal consensus are being funded by industries, such as automotive and oil, that stand to lose money by government actions to regulate greenhouse gases.

:: In the 1930s and 1940s, scientists and boys planning to be scientists read Astounding ( Analog ) with close attention to the hottest most promising ideas and took them up as soon as they could get funded lab space.

In 2010, a team of UK scientists funded by BBSRC announced they had decoded the wheat genome for the first time ( 95 % of the genome of a variety of wheat known as Chinese Spring line 42 ).

The study, which was funded by the Department for Food and Rural Affairs ( Defra ), was undertaken by the Food and Environment Research Agency ( Fera ) in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team of experts including scientists from the Institute of Occupational Medicine / SAFENANO.

Later it funded over $ 100 million dollars of plant biotechnology research and trained over four hundred scientists from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

The scientists and scholars funded by the Academy of Finland are called Academy Professors () and Academy Research Fellows ().

The GCP is privately funded through the Institute of Noetic Sciences and describes itself as an international collaboration of about 100 research scientists and engineers.

At a cryogenic research institute in London, funded by the pharmaceuticals tycoon Martina Masdon ( played by Diane Ladd ), a group of scientists led by Dr. Emma Porlock ( Frances de la Tour ) is working on reviving the mind of the 20th century writer Daniel Feeld ( Albert Finney ), whose head was frozen after Feeld's death at the end of " Karaoke ".

The new Regional Biocontainment Laboratory, funded by the National Institutes of Health, is home to scientists developing vaccines and drugs for some world's most devastating diseases.

At the end of the year 2009 a total of 487 employees were working at the institute, numbering among them 75 scientist, 95 junior scientists ( 45 IMPRS PhD students included ), 97 externally funded positions and 64 visiting scientists and interns.

The National Institutes of Health, which had funded Taub's research, was among the scientists and other professionals who criticized the conditions in which Taub had kept the monkeys, though the NIH later reversed its decision when the charges against Taub were overturned.

Research by bacteriologists Robert Koch and Paul Ehrlich and other scientists was funded by the imperial treasury and was freely shared with other nations.

Big Science is a term used by scientists and historians of science to describe a series of changes in science which occurred in industrial nations during and after World War II, as scientific progress increasingly came to rely on large-scale projects usually funded by national governments or groups of governments.

It has been popularized by Richard Lindzen in reference to government funded scientists and labs that use their research results to justify continued government funding.

* 750 projects involving 14, 000 former weapons scientists and created some 580 new peaceful high-tech jobs ; The International Proliferation Prevention Program has funded

While Bush claimed that more than 60 embryonic stem cell lines already existed from privately funded research, scientists in 2003 said there were only 11 usable lines, and in 2005 that all lines approved for Federal funding are contaminated and unusable.

The captive breeding program was funded with $ 150, 000 from the Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife, which was spent to construct the compound and to employ scientists involved in this project .< sup ></ sup >

Mashelkar is presently the president of Global Research Alliance, a network of publicly funded research and development institutes from Asia-Pacific, South Africa, Europe and USA with over 60, 000 scientists.

The institute primarily funds academic and clinical scientists and as of the end of 2005 had funded approximately $ 1. 4 million in research.

For example, Mexican scientific and civil defence bodies funded work at Colima, principally for Mexican scientists but also for a few foreign colleagues ; major bilateral French-Indonesian and German-Indonesian programmes were initiated at Merapi ; and the European Union has provided funding for many of the studies carried out at European volcanoes.

One particular activity that has not been funded — because it typically is not allowable under most national or bilateral funding — is the exchange of scientists and civil defence leaders between the various Decade Volcano projects of developing countries, for example, between the Philippines and Indonesia, or between Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia, or across the Pacific and Atlantic.

Ebell also called the UK's Chief Scientist David King " an alarmist with ridiculous views who knows nothing about climate change ", and then added that since all scientists in Europe and in other countries outside the USA were funded by governments, none of them could be seen as independent.